Amusing exchanges between tenants and landlords reveal some VERY strange conversations

Lording over! Fed up tenants reveal frustrating text exchanges with landlords including one who asked them not to cook in the kitchen and another who moaned that the rent was 11 pence short Parent Influence has rounded up viral text messages from around the world  Among the images are tenants having awkward conversations with landlords  … Read more

People share cringe-inducing text conversations they’ve seen online

Well, that was awkward! People share cringe-inducing texts they’ve seen online – from compliments gone wrong to awkward screenshots People from around the world shared awkward interactions they’ve had online  One boyfriend who cooked for partner saw text from mother reading ‘he tried’   Girl from Washington was complimented on a face swap that was her … Read more

Conversations about others can help you to feel more connected and form relationships, study finds 

 Gossiping about other people can make you feel more connected to those around you and even help you form better relationships, according to a new study. Neuroscientists from Dartmouth College had a group of volunteers play a series of online games and monitored the role of gossip between the different participants.  The US researchers found … Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook wants to use AR to improve conversations with charts and objects that appear

Apple has yet to make waves in augmented reality (AR), but a recent interview from CEO Tim Cook suggests tech giant is heading down the path with a focus to make conversations better. Cook spoke with Kara Swisher for The New York Times Monday about Apple’s upcoming technologies, specifically AR and an autonomous car. When … Read more

Ant and Dec interview Mo Farah over text as they urge viewers to have better quality conversations

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly unveil the return of ITV’s Britain Get Talking campaign as they urge viewers to ‘just chat’ after attempting to interview Mo Farah by TEXTING him By Aisha Nozari For Mailonline Published: 21:21 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 21:21 BST, 3 April 2021 Ant and Dec unveiled the return of … Read more

No, you hang up! Most conversations do not end when people want them to, study finds 

In the era of online interactions via Zoom, most conversations do not end when people want them to, a new study reports. US psychologists conducted two studies totalling 932 phone conversations – between loved ones and between strangers.  They asked people to report when they had wanted a conversation to end and to estimate when … Read more

Conversations with Friends: Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke announced for casting 

Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Joe Alwyn and Girls star Jemima Kirke will lead the cast in TV adaptation of Sally Rooney novel Conversations With Friends – following the success of ratings smash hit Normal People By Olivia Wheeler For Mailonline Published: 15:21 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 15:32 GMT, 17 February 2021 Joe Alwyn and … Read more

Matthew McConaughey reveals he has ‘forgiven’ her for leaking their private conversations

Matthew McConaughey did not talk to his mother for eight years. That is because the 50-year-old actor found out that his mom was leaking their private conversations to the media he told The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday. ‘I would have conversations and then all of a sudden—whoop—what we’d talk about would end up in the paper three … Read more

Princess Diana had ‘conversations with Jemima Goldsmith’ about moving to Pakistan

Princess Diana considered moving to Pakistan to live with the ‘love of her life’ Haznat Khan, a royal expert has claimed in new Channel 5 documentary Diana: Her Last Summer, which airs tonight. Speaking about Diana’s final summer before her death,  Eve Pollard claimed the Princess of Wales had conversations with Jemima Goldsmith about life … Read more

NHS worker reveals stern conversations with a businessman who refused to leave the office

As infections sharply rise and the Government puts the brake on easing lockdown, an NHS test and trace caseworker says many people are ignoring self-isolation rules – and explains why some of her underemployed colleagues call themselves the Mouse Movers’ Club… I couldn’t quite fathom what I was hearing.  After innumerable phone calls, I had … Read more